01 Record
CVE-2007-5962
Memory leak in a certain Red Hat patch, applied to vsftpd 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora 6 through 8, and on Foresight Linux and rPath appliances, allows remote attackers to
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Memory leak in a certain Red Hat patch, applied to vsftpd 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora 6 through 8, and on Foresight Linux and rPath appliances, allows remote attackers to
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 12.06% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-05-22 10:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 15:47Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-11-14
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e1d671939308678a0fe8a3e5367c63cfca16e40e432b9945a8b3eb8a1c7555c3
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- wiki.rpath.comhttp://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-4347https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00681.html
- secunia.com30341http://secunia.com/advisories/30341
- www.exploit-db.com5814https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5814
- secunia.com30354http://secunia.com/advisories/30354
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2008:0295http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0295.html
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-4362https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00691.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20080521 Re: vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/10
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comvsftpd-denyfile-dos(42593)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42593
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-4373https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00699.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-1600http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1600
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20080521 Re: vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/12
- www.securityfocus.com29322http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:8850https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8850
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20080521 vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/8
- www.securityfocus.com20080606 rPSA-2008-0185-1 vsftpdhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493167/100/0/threaded
- securitytracker.com1020079http://securitytracker.com/id?1020079